Link: https://www.nj.com/mosaic/2026/02/this-nj-trump-voters-husband-was-detained-by-ice-i-thought-theyd-focus-on-criminals.html

Abdellatif Hafraoui sits at a small dining table in the Bayonne apartment he shares with his wife, Sandra, sipping his morning coffee — a ritual unchanged over their 15 years of marriage.

Since August, however, that routine has been shadowed by months in ICE detention and the black ankle monitor now strapped around his leg.

...

The arrest forced Sandra to reconsider assumptions she had long held about immigration enforcement. “To think we were MAGA!,” Sandra proclaimed. The couple even attended a Trump rally in Las Vegas in 2020.

Sandra voted for Trump three times, believing enforcement would focus on people with criminal records — not individuals like her husband.

Asked what she would say to him now, she paused. “You said you were going after the worst of the worst, but instead you ruined our life,” she said.

Conservative Media: "Trump is arresting all the criminals. Here are some of the (AI generated) criminals Trump has recently arrested. Aren't you glad these people are no longer in the United States?"

Conservative Voters: "Wow, great job, I love this news"

Actual ICE official: incoherent screaming at your husband

Subset of Conservative Voters Experiencing This Personally: "This is not what the TV told me would happen"

Now I guess we get to find out if the subset is big enough to shift the elections, despite CBS getting added to the pile of reactionary propaganda.

Nah. These cultist fucks are brainwashed.

Sandra voted for Trump three times

Don't worry, once 2028 rolls around, she'll vote for him a fourth time.

The pic is choice:

Sandra and Abdellatif were staunch supporters of President Donald Trump. They even flew to Las Vegas to attend a Trump rally in 2020.

fuck this dumb fuck

Sandra voted for President Trump three times, believing enforcement would focus on people with criminal records — not individuals like her husband.

. . . Since his release, Abdellatif has been required to attend ICE check-ins and live under electronic monitoring. He cannot return to work.

In addition to the $15,000 bond, the couple estimates they have spent about $50,000 in legal fees to date, draining savings built over decades. They have launched a GoFundMe [link removed because fuck that] to help cover ongoing costs.

“We just want to be treated like people with rights,” Sandra said. “Not as problems to be managed.”

TL;DR: Learned nothing, will continue to vote cult til they die.

https://bsky.app/profile/papootx.bsky.social/post/3mfb7gojue222

Reality has a well known liberal bias. And as the saying goes, a leftist is just a liberal who has been mugged by the police.

These stupid assholes will never change their minds.

This dumb cunt and her husband will both immediately go back to supporting Trump tomorrow.

Haha, and HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Bluesky has a liberal bias...

They are, dumbass. You voted a paedophile rapist, insurrectionist, murderer into office, who we all knew was a felon, and he ran in order to cover up his own crimes, as well as to break many more laws.

Aiding and abetting is a crime, and that’s what you did, at least in spirit.

Fuck all the way off.

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I don’t know if you should read that much into it, other than that for once there are multiple viable Democrats in a primary. I personally wish Crockett and Talarico weren’t running against each other, so that they could focus on Cornyn/Paxton/Hunt instead , though to both parties’ credit they are not running negative campaigns.

But yes, the local repubs are calling it an existential threat to Christ-fearin’ ‘muricans, and how if they get in power there will be Sharia law and cats and dogs living together, etc

I can forgive a lot of things in life, but someone over 30 (so of voting age during Trump's first campaign and presidency) with an Arab-sounding name cheering for the guy whose Very First Act In Office was a blanket ban on visits from a lot of Muslim countries is a special kind of dumb.

It's not even LeopardsAteMyFace territory. It's, "This guy already said he hates my guts, so I am totally voting for him because this time it's going to be different."

lol fuck them to hell and back. They obviously wanted this.

Typical that they’d go to the GFM grift.

“We just want to be treated like people with rights,”

If there is one person without rights, then nobody has rights. But I'm not sure you're smart enough to learn that lesson.

The ONLY way to Stop Trump from KIDNAPPING and DEPORTING my Family is to VOTE for Trump AGAIN!

-LITERALLY EVERY Republican you Read about!

Boo — and I can’t stress this enough — fuckinghoo. You get what you voted for.

Playing the world smallest violin for you. You know what? Not even worth it.

This N.J. Trump voter’s husband was detained by ICE: ‘I thought they’d focus on criminals.’

Stupid is as stupid does

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/22/us-immigration-trump-administration

Worst of the worst? Most US immigrants targeted for deportation in 2025 had no criminal charges, documents reveal

I personally wish Crockett and Talarico weren’t running against each other, so that they could focus on Cornyn/Paxton/Hunt instead

The GOP is having its own night of the long knives. I wouldn't lose too much sleep.

But yes, the local repubs are calling it an existential threat to Christ-fearin’ ‘muricans, and how if they get in power there will be Sharia law and cats and dogs living together, etc

It's a powerful message. Just ask NYC Mayor Andrew Cuomo

To quote Solomon Burke's amazing song:

None of us are free if one of us is chained

Not wrong

Bet somebody showed her project 2025 and she called them delusional

Almost 100% likelihood.

That's a losing bet to take...only a maga would take that bet.

"Sandra" is an Arab-sounding name?

Stupid is too kind of a word.

Oh, look! You had $65,000 lying around to put up a fight! You're better off than a significant portion of the people in similar situations.

You have negative amounts of my sympathy.

They wanted this for other people. If it's good enough for other people, it should be good enough for them.

They are the Hafraouis. The man is Abdellatif Hafraoui. So, yes, they both have Arab-sounding names, one moreso than the other.

If he doesn't like Trump then he probably

The point is that the person doing the voting was the white American wife named Sandra, not the immigrant as the parent commenter implied. The parent commenter's statement...

It’s not even LeopardsAteMyFace territory. It’s, “This guy already said he hates my guts, so I am totally voting for him because this time it’s going to be different.”

...wasn't accurate because she, the voter, wasn't the one whose guts Trump hated (at least not more than he hates everybody).

"I voted for a criminal who said he was gonna go after criminals. I don't know what went wrong."

Some day scholars will have figured it out. Until then a mystery it shall remain.

It sounds like from the article that he never finished his immigration paperwork...

Turns out that most GOP voters are criminals or are married to criminals?

I always thought it was criminal to be this stupid, so does that count?

Why are Americans this dumb?

This story warms my heart. It's pretty rare that someone gets exactly what they voted for.

Can't wait for the sequel where he gets deported and has his GoFundMe scam money stolen.

with an Arab-sounding name

and a deportation order.

Look up "the southern strategy". They targeted poor rural areas for indoctrination, and it's paying dividends two decades later.

When has it ever been a gif?

Still don't understand how some people, especially those so obsessed with law and order and paperworks, doesn't file for citizenship as soon as eligible, and just lives decades without filing for citizenship?

Murdoch media, talk radio, Heritage Foundation, Citizens United, and Cambridge Analytica. All coming for you if it’s not already there. Right, UK? Germany, wassup.

The point is that they were both ardent Trump supporters.

Yeah it sure would be nice if immigrants were treated like people with rights instead of problems to be managed

generally speaking, people do file the proper paperwork if it doesn't put them at immediate risk of expulsion back to whatever they were fleeing in the first place (which is the most common outcome of applying for legal residency after "illegally" "crossing" the "border"). once you file the paperwork the usual turnaround time to get legal residency or citizenship is 10-15 years.

"yeah but Donald Trump said he doesn't know anything about it"